Open Source is a standalone product with its own community and roadmap geared towards small to medium sized businesses. Adobe supports and helps fund Magento, and will continue to do so. There willl always be the two products. Adobe wants the enterprise market for Adobe Commerce and thinks an open source base helps add value by building a bigger community and giving brands a path in And out of the enterprise licensing tier.
2024
Adobe's 2024 B2B Commerce Trends & Data Report
I was asked to present the technical perspective for Adobe’s 2024 edition of their B2B trends report
Play with a free Platform.sh account, it’s what Adobe Commerce Cloud is based on and it’s practically identical with a few caveats. I went through the exercise of deploying the Magento Cloud GitHub project to Plathorn.sh a few years ago - I think you can likely do this without an enterprise license. You can at least get far enough to get some real experience
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